The independent mobilization that is unfolding today across the US is the product of a process of reflection and growth in the consciousness of sectors of the population that are tired of waiting for solutions for their problems from the Obama government. It is a response from the popular sectors to the Obama government’s solution to the economic crisis – austerity measures and attacks on labor and civil rights (carried out on behalf of the big capitalists).
Bush and the Republican Party’s major defeat in the 2008 elections to Obama and the Democratic Party was for the masses an expression of their anger and discontent with the chaotic economic and political situation that Bush had led the country into.
Coming from a young, black President with some vague ties to the Left from the past, Obama’s promises were blatant efforts to appease the desires of the working class and oppressed masses, while giving the bourgeoisie the necessary time to prepare and arm itself to respond with an attack to the economic crisis that had just broken out.
{module Propaganda 30 anos – MORAL}Instead of enacting his promises for stronger unionization rights, an immigration reform, health care for all, a fight against racism, an end to the war, the closure of the prison at Guantanamo, increased rights for women, etc., the first measures he took as President were to hand over billions of dollars to the big banks and corporations, the same ones responsible for the crisis, using money from taxes on the working class.
The masses were once again deceived with the argument that the priority should be saving the financial system and protecting corporate capital from bankruptcy and total chaos. The Democratic Party thought that, much like in past economic crises, the shock measures they applied would create the conditions for a rapid recovery that would allow workers to return to work – if not all the laid off workers, at least the majority – and in this way recovery stability.
But reality served a wake-up call to the government and the entire bourgeoisie. Unable to hide the severity of the crisis, Obama had no other option but to continue attacking the rights of the working class and its allies, one after another in order to keep afloat the profits of the big capitalists.
Many workers don’t understand why politicians like Obama dare to deceive the people who threw their support behind him so he could become President. The reason for this is that behind all of his words lie the interests of the class he defends. Obama is not a loose wheel in the capitalist system. He is the highest representative of the Democratic Party, a Party that, along with the Republicans, has for decades dedicated itself to manipulating, repressing, and exploiting the masses in order to get out of them the maximum profits for the bosses. The three and a half years of the Obama administration have been the same game of faking Left and swerving Right.
